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Evanston, IL, US

Mountain View, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

• Provide comprehensive product intelligence to assist go-to-market efforts, with broad knowledge of culture and market in US and international markets.
• Lead and direct programming efforts within SCOPE and Market Intelligence, creating low overhead simulation and analytics software for assessing operations and success of UAM across markets.
• Leverage expertise in behavioral analysis, choice modeling and transportation analytics to understand customer behavior and market trends, incorporating customer attributes in forecasting travel behavior and mode.
• Employ experimental, survey design, data collection and data management expertise to acquire quality data to inform decision making and analytical efforts.
• Automate and improve software pipelines to reduce resource and compute requirements, drastically reducing overhead costs and turn-around times, allowing for more rapid iteration and decision-making.
• Apply advanced technical, statistical, mathematical and data science expertise to assist internal teams with resolving complex problems related to UAM operations and safety margins.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Spearheading data collection and research efforts in collaboration with U.S. Department of Transportation to study current and future work-from-home trends as well as shifts in household spending and mobility (12.
• Modeling shifts in intentions to use ridehailing and taxi services due to the COVID-19 pandemic using multigroup structural equation models, contributing new insight on how mobility decision-making intentions are.
• Leading 5 and collaborating on 3 other research initiatives on topics such as sentiment analysis of text exchanges in peer-to-peer shipping systems and understanding interdependencies in consideration of biking and.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Taught and instructed over 350 students across 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate courses in the fields of transportation engineering, civil engineering and language (largest class size: 204 students)Highlighted courses.

Evanston, Illinois, United States

• Recipient of Global Impacts Graduate Fellowship for PhD students engaged in scholarship related to Northwestern Buffett’s mission of exploring and addressing global challenges

Beirut, Lebanon

• Led research efforts on 3 different academic research projects on pedestrian satisfaction with walking environments and impact of happiness indicators on efficiency of choice models
• Modeled and processed data using difference-in-difference regressions, hybrid choice modeling and structural equation modeling (using Python, R and Stata)Highlights:- Designed a university-wide data collection plan on.

Beirut, Lebanon

• Taught and instructed over 250 students across 2 graduate and 6 undergraduate courses in the fields of transportation and civil engineeringHighlighted courses:- Urban Transportation Planning- Mechanics of Materials.

Beirut, Lebanon

• Assisted on academic research investigating the effects of aggregate columns on weaker soils by conducting laboratory tests and experiments
• Performed over 100 soil tests as part of the Soil Mechanics Lab team, including sieve analysis, Atterberg limits, direct shear and triaxial tests
• Taught, trained and managed new laboratory assistants

Beirut, Lebanon

• Planned and organized bimonthly auditing sessions in coordination with the team director to assess service quality and performance across 14 different branches
• Prepared timely reports with detailed audit assessment, including evaluation and relevant metrics

Beirut, Lebanon

• Led and worked on 19 different projects in transport engineering and urban planning across Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar
• Prepared successful proposals in English and Arabic for multiple project bids in transportation
• Improved workflow and submission quality by promoting the use of more advanced tools and statistical software
• Consulted for strategy consulting sister company, MindSETS, on designing smart city prototypes in the Arab Gulf
• Conducted frequent meetings with clients to provide project updates and present ongoing outcomes

Beirut, Lebanon

• Designed highway sections in mountainous terrain in Saudi Arabia
• Designed local roadways in a greenfield neighborhood project in Uganda
• Assessed pavement design for an outdoor truck parking in Qatar

Phd, Transportation Systems Analysis & Planning, 4.00/4.00

Dissertation: "Robots at your doorstep? Acceptance of near-future technologies for automated parcel delivery"

Master Of Science (Ms), Transportation Systems Analysis & Planning, 4.00/4.00

Master's Project: "Q-Learning as a machine learning approach for optimizing traffic signal operations"

Master Of Engineering (Me), Civil And Environmental Engineering, 4.00/4.00

Thesis: "Modeling satisfaction with the walking environment: The case of an urban university neighborhood in a developing country"

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Civil And Environmental Engineering, High Distinction, 3.81/4.00

American High School & Lebanese Baccalaureate Diplomas, Distinction